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About us, our core shows, our objectives and philosophy
About Us
To contact us, either email info@wit.org.nz , or if you are a traditionalist, write to Wellington Improvisation Troupe, PO Box 5483, Wellington. Or do both; we love to hear from you.
The Wellington Improvisation Troupe (WIT) is Wellington’s not-for-profit, community-based improvisational theatre group. WIT performs and teaches the skills of improvisational theatre at community venues around the Wellington region.
Theatre is made up on the spot by some of Wellington’s leading improvisers and courageous newcomers alike, based on suggestions from the audience. WIT players share a love of storytelling and work together as a team to inspire the audience. WIT theatre is sometimes serious, often hilarious and always totally unpredictable.
WIT members performed in the ‘Micetro’ show that won the New Zealand International Fringe Festival Best Comedy Award in 2003, and decided it was about time they formed a group that had a name. WIT brought together many of Wellington’s casual improvoholics, out of work actors and bored public servants. The group welcomes people from all walks of life.
The establishment of WIT reflects the enduring
popularity
of
improv around the globe and its resurgence in New
Zealand. Be part of
it - contact .
WIT Show Stop
WIT's core shows are:
- Micetro™, a licensed International Theatresports Format where players compete for audience scores and the title of Micetro. There can be only one...
- Gorilla Theatre™, a licensed International Theatresports Format where four experienced improvisers compete as directors of scenes to curry audience favour.
- Love Possibly, an improvised chick-flick where the audience calls the shots. There may be kissing.
- The Improv Divas, New Zealand’s first all-female improvisation act performing short-form improv – ‘highly inventive’ (National Business Review).
- The Young and the Witless, an annual soap opera season, celebrating the lives, loves and strange destinies of a group of chrarcters developed by WIT's senior players
- Battle of WITs, a team-on-team format
- Joe Improv, WIT’s militant youth wing are currently quiescent.
Check out our upcoming
shows
- most Wednesdays you can find a WIT show onstage at the
FringeBar,
unless there's something else happening (like a Fringe
Festival or
Christmas holidays). WIT also delivers 'W(IT)'s Tuesday'
weekly training for members
at Capital E and
beginners at the Wellington
Community
Education Centre.
WIT Objectives
WIT’s specific objectives as listed in the incorporated society’s founding document at are as follows:
- To promote, develop and foster the performance of improvised theatre and comedy in the Wellington region.
- To teach the skills of improvised theatre and comedy through workshops, classes and any other means to members and to the wider Wellington community.
- To encourage the having of fun and the not taking of oneself too seriously.
WIT Creative Philosophy
We have three creative drivers – telling stories,
cooperation
and having fun. We believe these drivers are
interdependent and create
the best kind of improvisational theatre. This
philosophy makes us
unique in New Zealand and is reflected in our choice of
a
not-for-profit organisational structure. Comedy is
regarded as the
pre-requisite that improvisation is best known for on a
public front.
However, the philosophy of WIT aims to also explore
beyond the bounds
of purely comedic improvisation. Further detail can be read here.
